If Your First Close Depends on One Anchor LP, You Don’t Have a Strategy
If Your First Close Depends on One Anchor LP, You Don’t Have a Strategy If your first close depends on one anchor LP saying yes, you do not have a fundraising strategy. You have a single point of fail
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